Year

2012

Robert Badea with Jesse Berezovsky
Fabrication and characterization of ferromagnetic vortices for spintronics
Poster Paper
The proposed project involves creating thin ferromagnetic films which behave with reduced dimensionality to create concentrated localized magnetic fields. The initial part of the project is to create thin ferromagnetic disks with a thickness of approximately 50nm...

Brian Cox with Rolfe Petschek
Understanding Quasicrystals
Poster Paper
Quasicrystals have been observed in a variety of metallic systems and recently also in simulations of hard tetrahedral. In quasicrystals atoms are arranged in such a way that the fourier transform of the positions of their centers, or indeed of any characteristic of...

Bill Flaherty with Glenn Starkman
Accounting for the sun's gravity in dark matter detection
Poster Paper
Dark matter is thought to compose a large fraction of the energy density of the universe, and in particular of our galaxy. The favored candidate for dark matter is weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), particles tens...

Rebecca Gilson with Brian Grimberg and Robert BrownPlasmoidium Falciparum Response to Oscillating Magenetic Fields and the Influence of Disruptive MeasuresMalaria causes over one million deaths per year and Plasmodium falciparum is the most deadly of the five types of human malaria. To prevent the build up of toxic heme,...

Wesley Gould with Philip Taylor
The effects of flexible side chains on the behavior of ions within a Nafion membrane
Poster Paper
NafionTM membranes have been known for years to hold potential for use in hydrogen fuel cells, as well as in some battery technologies. Currently the inner workings of NafionTM ,...

Jason Jones with Robert Deissler and Robert Brown
Studying the Magnetic and Optical Properties of Malaria for Use in Early Detection
Poster Paper
When the Malaria parasite ingests the hemoglobin of the red blood cell, it sequesters the toxic iron inside of its abdominal vacuole for safety. The iron atoms reside in...

Peter Lee with Colleen Croniger, Dept. of Nutrition
Genetic Factors in the Progression of Liver Fibrosis
Poster Paper
Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the leading cause of illness and death from liver complications in the United States. Specifically, alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH) is a type of liver disease characterized by the accumulation of...

Joseph Lesnefsky with Rolfe Petschek
Optimization of the Static First Hyperpolarizibility of One or Many Non-Interacting Fermions in One Dimension
Started Fall 2011, Finished Summer 2012
Poster Paper
Large non-linear electronic polarizabilities would be advantageous for a variety of devices and have been intensely studied for around three decades. This project will examine...

Integrated Optical CavitesTadeus Liska with Jesse BerezovskyLiska Berezovsky 2013Spintronics is an emerging field with numerous applications including quantum computing of which a key component is the ability to monitor the spin state of a system. Such monitoring can be achieved optically using spin-photon interactions such as the Faraday rotation....